Rocket Internet
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Rocket Internet is a German startup incubator and investment company known for rapidly building and scaling internet-based businesses, often by replicating successful online models in emerging markets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rocket Internet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4846133 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rocket Internet Context triple: [Lazada, foundedBy, Rocket Internet]
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A.
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
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B.
Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
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C.
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
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D.
Thoma Bravo
Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity investment firm known for acquiring and growing software and technology companies.
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E.
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rocket Internet Target entity description: Rocket Internet is a German startup incubator and investment company known for rapidly building and scaling internet-based businesses, often by replicating successful online models in emerging markets.
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A.
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
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B.
Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
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C.
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
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D.
Thoma Bravo
Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity investment firm known for acquiring and growing software and technology companies.
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E.
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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startup incubator ⓘ venture capital firm ⓘ |
| businessModel |
company builder
ⓘ
startup incubator ⓘ |
| controversy | criticized for cloning business models ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| delisted | 2020 ⓘ |
| focusArea |
classifieds
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e-commerce ⓘ financial technology ⓘ food delivery ⓘ online marketplaces ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Alexander Samwer
NERFINISHED
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Marc Samwer NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Samwer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Africa Internet Group
NERFINISHED
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Asia Pacific Internet Group NERFINISHED ⓘ Global Fashion Group NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle East Internet Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Berlin ⓘ |
| inception | 2007 ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
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startup incubation ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Alexander Kudlich
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oliver Samwer NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Kimpel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| legalForm | Societas Europaea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
copycat business models
ⓘ
rapidly building and scaling internet-based businesses ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Rocket Internet SE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portfolioCompany |
Delivery Hero
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Foodpanda NERFINISHED ⓘ HelloFresh NERFINISHED ⓘ Home24 NERFINISHED ⓘ Jumia NERFINISHED ⓘ Lazada NERFINISHED ⓘ Linio NERFINISHED ⓘ Westwing NERFINISHED ⓘ Zalando NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | Frankfurt Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListingDate | 2014-10-02 ⓘ |
| strategy |
expansion into emerging markets
ⓘ
replicating successful online business models ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | RKET NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.rocket-internet.com ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Rocket Internet Description of subject: Rocket Internet is a German startup incubator and investment company known for rapidly building and scaling internet-based businesses, often by replicating successful online models in emerging markets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.